With previous versions of Mint I'd put a hash in one line of /etc/default/grub to get a verbose boot but this doesn't seem to do anything now. I like to see something happening at boot and it seems for a while an animated logo has been absent - a black screen has too often for many of us suggested problems so it seems inadequate. So how can I get the boot gibberish back?

If this isn't normal, this is happening on both a 2gb 3ghz AMD pc with very new Radeon card and a 3gb 1.6ghz Intel 965-based laptop, both 64 bit.

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

I've just tried this and it seems fine. Just removing quiet splash and leaving the quotes and then doing sudo update-grub in the terminal and rebooting. It's not quite the full Debian 6 display of gibberish that I like, as it is slightly intermittent with some black screen still, but it will do. It stops the impression being given that the computer has had a stroke.

@ tpprynn: "It stops the impression being given that the computer has had a stroke." haha ok. Thanks for the heads up. I had Suse which had a very verbose boot, but maybe this will be better than nothing, like you say!

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